Battery storage and solar will be combined in a $42.5 million project for far north Queensland which will provide enough electricity to power 3,000 homes.

Australian company proposes 100MW solar farm with single axis tracking technology, going into "merchant market" with no additional grants.

While renewable energy is now the cheapest kind of new power generation that can be built right now in Australia, the goal of a zero-emission energy sector is still lacking a vital piece – affordable large-scale energy storage that will continue to pump out electricity after the sun goes down and the wind stops blowing.

Leading polysilicon and multicrystalline wafer producer GCL-Poly Energy Holdings has reported first half 2016 financial results that as expected benefited from the downstream boom in China that kept both polysilicon and wafer prices high.